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Crime and Punishment: Perception vs. Reality

Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosecutors, Chino, Crime Rate, Beyond Thunderdome, Bill Bratton, Prison Reform, Cook-County-Public-Defenders-Office, Prison, Ozzie and Harriet, Tv Criminals, Media and Crime, Tv and Crime, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

Stressing education, drug treatment and job placement isn't about "coddling" criminals; it's about expanding the tax base and reducing the poverty that causes the majority of crime in the first place.

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An Insider's View of Chino Prison

Mark Olmsted | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Violence, Chino, Crystal Meth, Nonviolence, California, Prison, Prison Gangs, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

I've served nine-and-a-half months, including four months at the California Institute for Men at Chino -- the very prison torn apart by rioting last weekend.

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Behind the Prison RIot in California

Pat Nolan | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chino, Sexual Violence, Riots, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Overcrowding, Us Prison Overcrowding, Prison, Sentencing, Prison Rape, National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Politics News
Pat Nolan

The skills the inmates develop to survive violent prisons make them dangerous when they are released. You can't cage men like animals and then expect them to be model citizens when they return home.

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Chino: 34 School Days Added Onto Student's Schedule By Error

Los Angeles Times | Seema Mehta | Posted 07.18.2009 | Home

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School's out for summer -- except for hundreds of children in western San Bernardino County who, because of an administrative snafu, must make up 34 d...

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